O`ver*lie" (?), v. t. [imp. Overlay (?); p. p. Overlain (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Overlying.]
To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant.
Quain.
A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping.
Chaucer.
© Webster 1913.